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Quotes About Chickens

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.
~ Hugh Jackman
My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.
~ Joel McCrea
I'M SCARED I'LL SHOOT MY NEIGHBOR BY ACCIDENT IF I SEE HIM TROTTING DOWN THE ROAD, SAID A FARMER IN KANSAS, WHAT IF HE GETS AFTER MY CHICKENS?
~ Charlaine Harris
So why does the National Chicken Council feel it's important that Americans eat chickens who are infected with cancer?
~ Thom Hartmann
But Virginia, bacon is breafast. And nothing sets my nostrils twitching like bacon in the morning. Little pigs parading up and down with their curly cork screw tails... Bacon sizzling away on a iron frying pan. Baste it, roast it, toast it, nibble it, chew it, bite right through it, wobble it, gobble it, wrap it round a couple of chickens and am I ravenous!
~ Kathryn Wesley
Sean called 'em space chickens.
~ Ilona Andrews
Sean cracked a smile. "They are chickens." "Technically they're not even avian." "Dina, we're going to host sixty-one space chickens." I gave up. "Yes." "And they're going to argue philosophy.
~ Ilona Andrews
I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens, is good quality.
~ Clifford Sifton
We live on a farm and we've never been happier, living in the country and pootling about. We keep chickens, turkeys and pigs, and I grow veg - it's perfect.
~ Caroline Quentin
Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.
~ Joel Salatin
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.
~ Jaquelin T. Robertson
I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.
~ Susan Orlean
We have chickens! And ostriches—they're like a chicken, only bigger! One of my colleagues is working on a Tyrannosaur—that's like a really huge chicken, with teeth—but for architectural reasons we can't let it roam free just yet.
~ Charles Stross
I am asking Julius to explain, I said, why his people are so partial to chickens.
~ Charles W. Chesnutt
Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice.
~ Kerry Greenwood
In addition to the stored foods, livestock—chickens and pigs and probably a few goats and geese—were penned on Sea Venture's deck, both to provide fresh meat during the voyage and to help stock Jamestown's farms.
~ Kieran Doherty
Do chickens have lips?
~ George Noory
When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
In England, you might have a possession game of six v. six, and it's like headless chickens: people running around everywhere just trying to keep the ball and be strong in tackles. But in Spain, you always stay in your position. You're still in your shape for every drill.
~ Toni Duggan
The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.
~ Andre Leon Talley
Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
~ Jack Horner
He arouses violent controversy among a loose flock of chickens that is straggling across his path, none of whom can seem to figure out how to get out of his way; they're scared of him, but not mentally organized enough to translate that fear into a coherent plan of action.
~ Neal Stephenson
Yes, word had gotten around about my amusing little defeathering trick (note: made the chicken naked). Apparently we couldn't just eat the poor thing and be done with it. Apparently we had to knit cunning lil' sweaters for it so it could squawk around the yard, feeling fancy.
~ Cate Tiernan
What do you call it when it rains chickens and ducks? Fowl weather.
~ Author Unknown